Open Events Magazine

ConFoo, Web Techno Conference, Call For Speakers

2009-09-22T04:33:29Z

PHP-Qu�bec, Montr�al-Python, Ruby Montr�al, W3Qc, and OWASP Montr�al are organizing the first edition of the ConFoo.ca conference, which will be held in Montreal on March 10th through 12th at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel. With over 500 expected attendees, ConFoo.ca is the largest Web development conference in North America.

We are looking for the best speakers willing to share their experience and skills with programmers, managers, marketers and decision makers. The conference is divided into two parts:

A technical part, encompassing different aspects of Web development: PHP,Python, Ruby, security, project management, CMSs and frameworks,databases, systems administration, Web standards, accessibility and agile methods.
A decision-making part: referencing (SEO), Web marketing analysis, and social networking.

Presenters can decide to present in English or French. Presentations are roughly one hour long. These may be recorded for later broadcast in digital format.

All relevant details concerning the conference are available on the website confoo.ca.

PHP Days 2009, Two-Days French Seminar

2009-07-04T12:31:41Z

On 6-7 July, The French PHP Community is invited to participate in a two days seminar and meet the pillars of the PHP community : PHP Days 2009. In total there are four conferences of half-day each.

Create work an optimal work environment (debug, collaboration ...)
Practical Zend Framework
Secure your PHP Applications (hacking and anti-hacking techniques)
Performance optimizations (multiply your performance by ten)

The seminar will be headed by Jean-Marc FONTAINE, Julien PAULI, Cyril PIERRE de GEYER, Damien SEGUY, and Romain BOURDON. Pricing for the two days 1090 EUR HT. More information available at http://www.phpdays.com.

PHP Barcelona Conference 2009, Call for papers

2009-06-30T07:20:17Z

The Spanish PHP Barcelona Conference 2009 will be held this year on September 25th-26th, so if you are Spanish or English speaker and you want to share scenario with Derick Rethans or Sebastian Bergmann go to the Call for Papers section and follow the instructions to send your presentation.

This year, we have lots of improvements: two days of event, two languages (English and Spanish), different types of conferences (talks, workshops, etc.), big new sponsors, and much more. It�ll be a big party and if you want to join us, you are very welcome.

CodeWorks Conference

2009-06-14T12:11:56Z

CodeWorks 2009 is a series of two-day conferences for PHP developers and IT managers organized and run by the publishers of php|architect Magazine.

CodeWorks will travel to seven locations across the United States between September 22nd and October 5th included. Each two-day event includes a day of in-depth tutorials and a day of conference talks arranged across three different tracks, all presented by the best experts in the business.

These locations include:

* San Francisco, CA (9/22-9/23)
* Los Angeles, CA (9/24-9/25)
* Dallas, TX (9/26-9/27)
* Atlanta, GA (9/28-9/29)
* Miami, FL (9/30-10/1)
* Washington, DC/Baltimore Area (10/2-10/3)
* New York, NY (10/4-10/5)

If PHP is your work, your passion or your hobby, CodeWorks is a great way to learn and connect with the greatest community of professionals in the world�and with prices as low as $99 and a generous discount program, a uniquely affordable opportunity for everyone.

Remember, each event is limited to 300 attendees and prices increase the closer we get to each event. Get your tickets today before we run out or the price goes up!

For more information, visit http://cw.mtacon.com.

PHP Developers Day Indonesia, Organized by Zend and Microsoft

2008-06-13T12:31:09Z

Salah (aka visualmind) have recently notified me about the PHP Developers Day Indonesia that will be held in Jakarta on Thursday, June 19th, 2008. The new is in the poster where you can read in the bottom the list of Organizers that include : Zend and Microsoft ?! I didn't find any official announcement at Zend or Microsoft Indonesia showing that they organize officially the PHP Developers Day 2008 in Indonesia, but anyway there is only two names from Microsoft shown in the poster Irving Hutagalung and Risman Adnan, but nobody from Zend. More information could be found at http://php-id.org.

Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 - Sydney - Call for Papers

2008-05-25T09:06:04Z

The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. This year, the conference will be in Sydney during the first week of December (1st - 5th) and the venue for the event will be announced soon.

With three developer talks on at any time, spanning over the three days of the main conference, and the tutorials on the days before the main conference, there is bound to be something of interest to any developer. Check http://osdc.com.au/2008/papers/cfp.html for more details.

Forum PHP Paris 2008, Call for Speakers

2008-04-19T11:32:32Z

The AFUP, Association Fran�aise des Utilisateurs de PHP, have just announced the upcoming conference "Forum PHP 2008". The two day conference will feature one technical day with the most advanced PHP techniques and a business day, with case studies and examples of successful projects.

Sessions from the best French speaking experts will include :

How to manage a PHP project (tools, methods, ...)
Insure code quality
Internet and legal issues (intellectual property, ...)
Build a business around
PHP scalibility
Connect services(web services)
Rich User Interfaces (technology choice, implementation, ...)

Sessions will typically be 45 minutes long followed by a 10 minutes Q&A session and up to 3 hours for workshops. Use the form on the site to submit your session proposal.

Proposals will be reviewed after the deadline has passed. Additional information may be asked where needed. Proposals will be chosen according to their layout, relevancy for a professional audience and the overall homegeneity of the forum. Every candidate will be personnally notified of the status of their proposal. The decision is final. Priority will be given to sessions in French.

Dutch Joomla!days 2008, On 4-5 April in Utrecht

2008-03-25T17:45:08Z

From 4th to 5th April 2008 in Utrecht will be held the third annual Conference and Expo : Dutch Joomla!days 2008. Building on the great success of the Dutch Joomla!days in 2006, this third edition will have an international perspective. With 500 open source experts and business people attending, the event will be bigger and even more exciting than the previous editions.

Together they will put Joomla! in the spotlight. During the conference, attention will be given also to other projects, such as Drupal, Typo3 and sugarCRM. Why? Because we are going to build bridges. With Joomla! as the centerpiece. Three quarters of all sessions will deal with Joomla!, which means that visitors who only want to hear about Joomla!, can do so, with abundant freedom of choice.

Third Annual DC PHP Conference & Expo Registration Opens

2008-03-03T05:50:34Z

The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced the third annual DC PHP Conference & Expo scheduled for June 2-4, 2008, at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Join hundreds of PHP practitioners, business managers, and government officials from around the world in the exchange of ideas and solutions for building a better web application infrastructure. DC PHP Developers� Group is committed to expanding PHP's deployment in the Washington, DC Region.

Get ready for three days of exceptional presentations and outstanding networking events. Previously held in November, DC PHP is excited to bring the PHP community a bigger and better conference in 2008 with the move to late spring.

PHP Conference Brasil 2007

2007-11-26T06:00:28Z

From this Friday, November 30th to December 1st will be held the 2nd annual PHP Conference Brasil 2007. The event will take place at UNIFIEO in Osasco, S?o Paulo. This year's conference will have room for 1000 people. Its scheduled for tutorials of 3 hours, aside of speeches, cases, stands and a great catch up time for newbies and veterans. More information and registration on the Conference website.

Web Directions North returns for 2008

2007-11-15T08:13:13Z

After huge success in Vancouver Canada in early 2007, and Sydney Australia last month where attendance grew more than 50% from last year, one of the world's leading conferences for web professionals, Web Directions, returns to Vancouver in late January 2008.

Featuring in-depth day long workshops, more than 20 world leading speakers from across the globe over two days, and two days at Blackcomb/Whistler proving geeks can ski and board with the best of them, Web Directions is widely considered one of the 'must attend' professional events of the Web Industry, drawing attendees from all over the world.

Unlike most web conferences, Web Directions is organized by industry practitioners and leaders with collectively decades of experience in web design and development. We are passionate and knowledgeable about the web, we keep abreast of trends and developments, and like our attendees we work with the web every day so understand the need for practical content that attendees can use right now, as well as inspiration for the future.

Web Directions focusses on the challenges of building the web - practical and inspiring concepts, technologies and techniques for web designers, developers, product managers, and others whose day to day responsibility is making and managing web sites and applications.

DC PHP Conference 2007, 7-9th November

2007-10-29T20:16:41Z

From 7 to 9 November 2007 will be the held the DC PHP Conference in Washington, DC. This year the conference will focus on "Creating Enterprise Level Web Applications with PHP" with lots of great sessions on PHP Security, Scalability, the art of PHP, and alternative topics. Some of the speakers include Chris Shiflett, Damien Seguy, Tony Leonard, Brian Shire, Colin Thorne, Eli White, Mike Potter, Laura Thomson, David Sklar, Mike Ho, and Keith Casey, in addition to many others. Registration is $450 and student pass is just $150, you can find more on details on the conference website. If you are around Washington be sure to not miss this great entreprise level conference.

PHP Quebec 2008 : call for speaker

2007-09-20T10:49:57Z

PHP Quebec is pleased to announce the sixth edition of the PHP Quebec Conference. The Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada between March 12th and 14th, 2008. We are looking for speakers willing to share their expertise with Canadian and United States PHP professionals.

The Conference features the PHPLab, where speakers and visitors will find solutions to actual business problems. The two days of technical talks will be dedicated to advanced software development techniques with PHP5 and PHP6, XML, web services, databases, etc.

Organizers will prioritize new and original topics in English or French.For more information, visit the website: http://conf.phpquebec.com

Flex for PHP Developers eSeminar

2007-06-28T11:31:00Z

If you are interested to Flex development with PHP, there will be an eSeminar by Adobe today June 28, 2007 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM US/Pacific. Are you interested in creating rich Internet applications while still using your PHP skills? Did you know that Flex allows you to create rich user interfaces while still maintaining your PHP code on the backend? Replace your HTML with a modern, cross platform UI that works across all major browsers and operating systems, leveraging the ubiquity and power of the Flash Player.

Adobe Flex and PHP is the perfect combination for creating rich Internet applications. This technical session will walk you through the details of Flex, and how it integrates with PHP.

In this technical session you will :

Learn what Flex is and how it works
Learn how to transfer data from PHP to Flex, and vice versa
Learn how a Flex front end can be built for an existing PHP application

OSCon, OSCamp and ubuntuLive Up For This July

2007-06-09T21:32:32Z

OSCon 2007 is going to be hot this year from July 23-27, 2007 in Portland, Oregon. Over 2500 open source developers, gurus, experts, and users will there for the yearly open source event, with 40 tutorials for this year and over 400 sessions focusing on Administration, Business, Databases, Emerging Topics, Java, Linux, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Web Applications, and much more.

Also from O'Reilly Media, The first ubuntu Live conference is taking place from July 22-24, 2007 also in Portland, Oregon. You will be disappointed because you can't be everywhere ! Many interesting topics will be explored on ubuntu from usage, install, experiences, in education, in NGO, performance and much more. Ubuntu Live is being launched to provide a meeting place for Ubuntu users, contributors, and partners--and the Ubuntu-curious. Learn how Ubuntu can make a critical difference in your business or project and engage with the global open source community at the largest Ubuntu gathering yet.

Finally a note about OSCamp unconference which will be held on July 25-26 as part of O'Reilly's OSCon2007. To assist at the OSCamp, just register over OSCon with the code os07oscamp. Check the OSCamp registration page for more details about assisting in this open event. I think July will be quite busy !